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Volume No. 17 No. 42
V . _ - _ I
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SOUTHPORT, N. C.
A Good Community
WEDNESDAY 4th, 1955
PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY
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Brunswick County
$1.50 PER YEAR
List Rules For
Annual Flower
Show Next Week
Preparations Being Made
for Staging Annual Event
At Community Building
Friday, May 13
THREE SERVING AS
JOINT CHAIRMEN
Several Classifications In
Show; Jr. Flower Show
To Be Conducted For
School Kids
Plans are proceeding according
to schedule for staging the an
nual Flower Show in the Com
munity Building on Friday, May
13. Co-chairmen are Mrs. J. A.
Gilbert, Mrs. R. A. Jones and Mrs.
Bryant Potter.
The following information re
garding regulations and classifi
cations is being furnished for the
benefit of prospective exhibitors:
Rules: Anyone interested may
exribit; exhibits must be in place
by noon; only one entry in each
class may be made by exhibitor;
foliage allowed in all arrangement
classes; flowers used in arrange
ment classes need not be grown
by exhibitor; clubs will not be
responsible for personal property
although all care will be used to
protect it; all entries in horticul
ture classes must be grown by
exhibitor and should be labeled
to variety whenever possible;
committee will supply containers
at specimen classes; entries may
not be removed before 9:30 p. m.;
no one will be allowed in the
hall at the time of judging except
the flower show chairmen, chair
men of awards, clerks and judges.
Schedule: Living room-large;
living room-small; dining room;
dinner tables-all time hit parade;
coffee table-large; coffee tables
small; floor arrangements, ar
rangements in silver; arrange
ments in black ; arrangements in
white; arrangements in brass or
copper; driftwood or seashore;
dried arrangements; shadow
boxes-what the world needs;
minitures; wild flowers; fruits
and vegetables; any unusual con
tainers not listed.
Horticulture schedule; peren
nials; bulbs; annuals,; roses-tea;
roses-floribunda; potted plants
blooming; potted plants-non
blooming; African violets.
Junior Flower Show: Chair
man, Jean Thompson; house
committee, Sandra and Wanda
(Continued on Page Four)
Brief Bits Of
-NEWS—^
CHANGE CHURCH HOUR
The regular Sunday evening
worship services at Trinity Meth
odist Church will begin at 8
o’clock, instead of 7:30, effective
Sunday night, May 8, and con
tinuing until further notice.
CAKE & PIE SAXE
Members of the Margaret Park
hill Auxiliary of St. Phillips Epis
copal Church will conduct a cake
and pie safe Saturday in the
office of the Carr Insurance
Agency, beginning at 10 o’clock.
BENEFIT FISH FRY
There will be a fish fry on the
grounds of Zion Methodist Church
at Town Creek on Saturday night,
May 7, beginning at 6 p. m. Pro
ceeds will help with the construc
tion of the new Educational
Building. Cakes and pies will also
be on sale, whole, half or sliced.
CHARTER MEMBER
The Beta Psi chapter of Sigma
Alpha Iota, national professional
music fraternity for women, was
installed at East Carolina College
Sunday, at the Manie E. Jonkins
Alumni House at 7 p. m. Seven
teen students of music at the
college became charter members,
including Mary Hughes of Ash.
ART EXHIBIT
Neal Thomas, Brunswick coun
ty artist, has an exhibit of his
work at the Artists’ Gallery, 851
Lexington Avenue at 64th Street,
New York. The exhibit opened
April 30 and will continue through
May 19. The artist is the son of
Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius Thomas
of Clarendon Plantation.
RETURN APPLICATIONS
Harry L. Mints, Jr., president
of the Allantic Telephone Mem
bership Corporation is anxious to
have all subscribers who have
not returned their applications to
do so at once. These application
forms were sent therji several
weeks ago, and all that is neces
sary is to sign them and return
them in the self-addressed en
velopes that were provided for
that purpose.
Suggests Effort
To Regain Cannon
Wilmington Man Thinks It Should Be Possible To Recover
At Least Two Former Ft. Johnston Cannon
A letter was received last week
from Harry Hayden, Wilmington
newspaper man and historian in
which he expresses concern over
the fact that the cannon which
once protected Ft. Johnston at
Southport have been remover,
probably to some other state!
Here is the text of his letter:
“I am writing to ask if you
would, through the columns of
your newspaper .promote some
sentiment favoring a proposal for
the recovery of at least two of
the 24 cannon that were remov
ed from FORT JOHNSTON be
tween 1899 and 1902.
“In as much as these twenty
four cannon, a gift of King
George, II, were installed for
the purpose of defending Fort
Johnston, which was erected in
1745, and which was the first
fortification built by the British
in the Carolinas, it occurred to
me that these old gusn are prob
ably the most valuable relics that
Brunswick County may have to
offer to posterity.
"It should be noted that these
same cannon were spiked by the
British in 1766, to prevent the
enraged Colonists from using :
them in destroying the British
Sloops-of-War which were then
attempting to unload a shipment
of the despised British Tax
Stamps to the Royal Governor
at Husselboro, near Orton House.
"I think one of these cannon
stands guard at the entrance of
either the United States Mili
tary Academy in West Point, N.
Y., or the United States Naval
Academy at Annapolis, Mary
land. Most of the remaining
twenty-three cannon I think were
sent to improve the history of
Charleston, South Carolina, at
the expense of the history of our
own North' tSate.
“What I would like to ascer
tain is this: Is there any senti
ment existing in Southport to
day for the return of these can
non, or at least two of them?
“p- S.—I think that the can
non were removed when Maj. E.
W. Van C. Lucas was Wilming
ton District Engineer for the
United States Corps of Engin
eers, and it is possible that re
cords showing the placement of
each and every one of the 24
guns are on file with the U. S.
Engineers.”
Name Committees
For All Schools
Completely New Board Is
Named For Some Schools,
Including Southport; Cha
nges Made In Committee
At Other Schools
STATE BOARD HAD
CAUSED A DELAY
Normally, Local Boards
Would Already Be Elec
ted And Functioning
But Legislation Prom
pted Delay
Members of the local commit
tees for all of the schools of
Brunswick county were named by
the Board of Education at their
regular meeting here Monday
night.
Ordinarily, this action would
have been taken several weeks
ago, but an order came down
from the State Department ask
ing that appointments be delay
ed until clarification of school law
had been made. Directions came
from Raleigh last week to pro
ceed with the appointments.
The following persons were
named to serve:
Waccamaw: E. L. Vereen, El
roy King, Dave Bennett.
Shallotte: Frederick M i n t z,
Hubert Bellamy, Boyd Lott, James
Bellamy, Tom L. Ballard.
Bolivia: Kenneth McKeithan,
Lee Wescott, Homer Holden.
Southport: B. M. Burris, E. C.
Blake, Harold Aldridge, Mrs. W.
H. Nunnely, Mrs. J. C. Crouch.
Leland: Robert McDougal, F. D.
Williams, Lloyd Bordeaux, W. H.
Benton, Robert Bordeaux.
B. C. T.: William Warnette,
George Clemmons, Moses Wil
liams, Richard H. Davis, Rudolph
Bryant.
Piney Grove: Julius Randolph,
Continued On Page Two
Brief Session
Of Court Held
Monday Session Of Bruns
wick County Recorder’s
Court Completed By 1:00
An unusually brief session of
Brunswick county Recorder’s
court was completed by 1 o’clock
Monday, with the following judg
ments being handed down:
Ray Van Weaver, speeding (70
mph) fined $15 and costs.
Joan Freeland, speeding (65
mph) fined $10 and costs.
Arthur Francis Benton, speed
ing (60-rnph) fined $15 and costs.
Pauline Hawes Inman, speed
ing (70-mph) fined $15 and costs.
T. F. Boyd, embezzlement, held
for Superior court under $500
bond.
Elbert Rogers Atkins, speeding
I (65-mph) fined $10 and costs,
I fine remitted because of faulty
! speedomter.
Charles Jasper Wiggs speeding
j (65-mph) fined $10 and costs.
Edmond Jerome McCarthy,
j speeding (70-mph) fined $15 and
I costs.
Ora Grace Hinson, speeding
(65-mph) fined $10 and costs.
i Continued On Page Two
f=
Gospel Sing At
Bolivia Saturday
Final plans for the Gospel
Sing on Saturday night at Bo
livia High School auditorium
have been completed. It is
scheduled to begin at ©
o'clock and the public is urg
ed to come early in order
to secure good seats.
There seems to be a good
bit of enthusiasm about this
sing and indications are that
a large crowd will be in at
tendance. Sponsors have made
arrangements to have food
and refreshments available at
any time during the program.
Children under school age will
be admitted free. The pro
gram is being sponsored by
the Bolivia Lions Club.
Band Will Play
Here Tomorrow
May Day Festivities Will In
clude Parade Through
Town By Training School
Band And Concert On
Lawn
With their high-stepipng high
school band forming the center of
activities, the Brunswick County
Training School at Southport will
stage, a big May Day Festival
tomorrow (Thursday).
First in order of the day’s
events the band will head a
parade at 11 o'clock. This parade
will begin at the school grounds
and will extend through various
sti’eets to the court house, where
a concert will be rendered on
the lawn at 11:45.
Returning to the school at
12:45, physical educational activi
ties will be held there, followed
by a Maypole dance. This in turn
will be followed by a baseball
game between the Brunswick
County Training School and the
Pender County Training School
from Burgaw.
The band parade, etc., and
Continued On Page Two
Good Progress
By Small Dredge
First Operations Of New
Dredge Owned By South
port Man Prove Satisfac
tory
Small but said to be very ef
ficient, the dredge purchased two
i weeks ago by Davis Herring from
the Georgia Iron Works Company
at Augusta, Ga., has been at
! tracting a great deal of atten
! tion by its steady performance.
C. Walker Hodges, Jr., engin
eer for the builders, has beer
i checking on the operations and
j he states he is very much pleas
j ed with the performance. Nat
Continued On Page Two
Delegation In
Washington Tj
Back Carljj
Brunswick County Del«'
gation Joins With Rep
sentatives From Of
Coastal Counties In S'
port Of Relief Bill
$5,000,000.00 BEING §
SOUGHT FOR PURPfj
Local Representatives )
couraged Over Prosper
For Getting Help Foi
Repairs And Pro- ‘
tection
The bill now before Congr
sponsored by Congressman F.
tel Carlyle, asking for the
propriation of five million <
lars to repair the hurricane d{
age on the coast of North Cs
lina has the appearance of g<
prospects of passage.
This is the opinion of a d(
gation from Brunswick and
rious other counties on theif
turn from Washington Frid
They went to appear in behalf
the measure and were most c
dially received.
Going from Brunswick for t
hearing were D. C. Herrii
James C. Bowman, Charles fro
Walter Aldridge and Ormond hi
gett. Bowman was the spoki
man and presented the cause
Southport and the Brunswi
coast in an able manner.
The funds, if the bill pass
will be used both to repair stoi
damage and for preventative wcj
against storms in the future.-T
reception accorded the local m
in Washington created high ho*
that the bill will pass. Sevei
N. C. State officials attended t
hearing in addition to the de
gation from Brunswick and otl
counties.
The report presented by Ct
gressman Carlyle stressed |..t'
following amounts as needed*
Brunswick County needs IS
421,000; including Ocean *1
Beach, Long Beach, and S’ iji
Inlet; New Hanover County’
000, including Wilmington
p-ort Klsner; I’cmier vCIUl*
$564,900, including New Topsa
Beach, Topsail Inlet Terrance an
Del-Mar Beach; Carteret Count;
$600,000; Town of Beaufort, 894
OOO; Morehead City, $202, OOf
Southport, $222,500; Carolin
Beach, $1,263,743; Onslow Count;
$300,000; W rights ville Bead
$406,000; Atlantic Beach, $150
000; and Kure Beach, $70,000.
King Mackerel Catch
e KINGFISH—This is the catch made by the party fishing Sunday with Capt. Wal
ler Lewis aboard the John-Ellan. There are 27 king mackerel, 3 amberjack and 1
ionito. The fishermen, from left to right, are B. E. Tedder, S. G. Thompson, E. B.
['redder, Shad Bowles and Bruce Stone. The Tedders are from Winston-Salem., the
: ithers from Lumberton.— (Art Newton Photo.)
Robinson Mayor,
V
City Manager In
Roy Robinson Defeats J. A.:
Gilbert 223 To 191 In A
Close Contest For Position
Of Mayor
MANAGER PLAN GOES
IN BY TWO-TO-ONE
Ernest Parker, Jr., And
Boyd Moore Are Winners
In Contest For Aider
men From 3rd Ward
\ ^Citizens of the City of South
»A-ru • 4 - *1,^
i\N*. manager plan of government
d|d named Roy Robinson to serve
r&nmyor for the next two years,
.-■obinson’s victory came by a
l lirgin of 223 to i91 over J. A.
alert, who had served as mayor
^le his appointment to fill the
n’Bcpired term of the late H. W.
r <4d. The last two years of this
!nj$ were by virtue of his elec
to that office two years ago.
Negro Facing
Murder Charge.
Lonnie Beatty Of Delco Ar- (
rested Thursday And Isj
Being Held For Trial Forj.
Fatal Shooting Of Joseph,)
McCoy ei
Lonnie Beatty, Delco negrole
who is alleged to have shot ant:
killed Joseph McKoy during aei
disturbance at Navassa somt I
two months ago, surrendered tce
Columbus and Brunswick offi-tc
cers near Lake Waccamaw ii>t
Columbus county Thursday af-^
ternoon. He was unarmed anqe
officers say that he seemed glai-y
that his hiding out was over. ,tj
It was reported that Beattyer
and another negro became en)te
gaged in an argument. McKoyje.
one of several bystanders, wait!)
playing the role of peacemakers
and was fatally shot allegedlld
Continued On Page Two Cc
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le only contest for members
he board of aldermen was in
third ward, where Ernest
ter polled 241 votes and Boyd
re collected 235 to win over
ton Bellamy with 160 and G.
lubbard with 103.
larlie Aldridge and Harold
idge had no opposition in the
ward. The former had 326
s and the latter 339. There
■ two write-in votes for W.
orgensen and for G. W. Mc
:iery, both former members
:he board of aldermen who
! not candidates this year,
the 2nd ward the two nom
s were G. C. Kilpatrick, who
333 votes, and Ormand Leg
with 330.
lere was general surprise at.
outcome of the city manager
While there had been little
poken opposition to the plan,
- was a feeling that the silent
would go against the meas
Just the opposite happened,
the result that the proposal
ed by a margin of 258 for
120 against.
ntinued On Page Four)
W. B. It KM AH
VING
eporter
Not enough folks around her
realize how much Fort Caswel
Caswell Beach, Yaupon Bead
Long Beach, Sunny Point an
Southport have in common. I
just a few years they will foil
just one big community, with th
folks in all places seeing l ha
they are partners. Since he cam
here we have repeatedly bee
finding out that Col. W. A. Me
Aleer, the C. O. at Sunny Poin
has a fine idea of citizenship an
community spirit. He was th
first to buy a Southport City ta
for his personal car, the first t
subscribe to this paper, and thi
week he came along and left n
a note that carried a ftne idea fc
publicity for the new Yaupon Vi
lage fishing pier. His idea i
given in a story elsewhere 1
this issue, along with other idea.
■ Southport people who have
ome acquainted with the Col
1, his officers and men, are
ud of the general community
fit they have been showing.
V story in this paper last week
d of the efforts of the eongre
•ion of the Bethel Baptist
urch towards building a new
tse of worship to replace the
one they have been using for
ny years. In connection with
s matter information has been
eived of the special efforts
■de by Mrs. Ralph Sellers of
Litliport. This good lady, bed
den with heart trouble for
en years, lias raised over a
mrand dollars towards the
Ji'ih fund. Unable to even leave
■ fc-d, she raised the. money by
(Continued on fage 4).. .
Plug Of Tobacco
From Kerr Scott
L. P. McLendon, Jr., of
Gerensboro and Charles Trott
of Southport flew to Wash
ington Friday in the interest
of the rapidly growing town
of Long Beach.
Among other places where
their business called them
they walked into the office
of Senator W. Kerr Scott.
Jilt, ill's,!. 11,111^ u.o 11 i, i_:
of Haw River did and said,
. according to McLendon and
Trott, was to hand Trott an
oversize cut of Peach and
Honey chewing tobacco, made
in Winston-Salem, telling
him: "Give this to my friend,
Bill Keziah, at Southport.”
Senator Scott was much
interested in the mission of
the Southport and Long
Beach delegation to Wash
ington.
Colonel McAleer
Makes Inspection
Col. William A. McAleer
Spending This Week On
1 rip fo Inspect Terminal
Facilities At Ports In 3
Southern States
Col. William A. McAleer, com
mander of SPA ALT, left Monday
for an inspection trip of deep
water ports between Southport
and Miami, Fla. He expects to
return about Saturday. Following
Coolnel McAleer’s return here it
is expected that General James
Glore, commander of the Port of
Embarkation in New York, will
be here for a conference and in
spection.
An important fact not general
ly realized is that all deepwater
ports on the Atlantic Coast from
Miami, Fla., eastward to the Vir
ginia line, are under the com
mand of Sunny Point at South
port in all matters of Army
(Continued on Page 2)
Asphalt Plant
Turns Out Mix
Set Up On Sunny Point Re
servation To Provide Ma
terial For Paving Road
ways Inside Installation
When there are no winds to
blow it down, the billowing black
smoke from the E. B. Towles
asphalt plant at Sunny Point is
often causing some Southport
folks to think that there must
be a fire in the installation neigh
borhood.
A couple of weeks ago this
paper inadversently said that the
plant had a capacity of 60-tons
of asphalt per hour. As a matter
of fact, they are ready to turn
out 125-tons of the stuff per hour.
Thus far they have surfaced only
a short stretch of road and have
been busy with testing. They
will get to work in earnest on the.
paving this, week.
Continued On • Page Two
i
King Mackerel
Being Caught
On Gulf Trips
Shoal Parties Had Good
Luck With Bluefish When
Weather Permitted Them
To Remain Out During
Past Few Days
On a trip to the Gulf with Cap
tain Hulan Watts Sunday, a Dur
ham party made the prize catch
of the week. They brought in 31
large king mackerel, 10 amber
jack, 9 big bluefish and 6 bonito.
The Durham folks with Captain
Watts were R. L. Crotts, W. A.
Pope, Cary Pickett, E. F. Walker,
H. C. Norman, C. R. Padgett.
Another good Sunday catch was
reported by Capt. Fred Flllford,
who had a Hickory party headed
by E. R. Woodard out on the
shoals: They caught 73 bluefish,
despite rough weather.
A party out with Capt. Leon
McKeithan Sunday brought in 27
king mackerel and other large
fish. These fishermen were from
Fayetteville.
It was another week end when
the weather interferred with plans
of scores of people who had
heard about the good catches be
ing made at Southport and who
had come down to try their luck.
New Development
Back Of Beach
Wooded Area Across Sound
From Strand Will Come
In For Development Un
der Plans Just Announced
By W. B. KEZIAH
Part of a six hundred-acre
tract of land on Long Beach,
once offered free to the State
Park Commission and declined is
bidding fair to form the most
valuable development in connec
tion witli that resort.
Work of building roads has
been underway for the past three
weeks, prelimary to laying out a
sub-division for residental pur
poses. Wilmington and Southport
men will this week apply to the
Secretary of State for incorpora
tion papers for a stock company
that is said to plan extensive
ueveiopmem. or uie area.
The land, some 325 acres, is
on the north side of Davis Creek,
extending to the intracoastal wa
terway. It is high and dry and
beautifully wooded .mostly with
oak, hickory and other hardwoods.
From the developed area along
Long Beach, portions of the plan
ned new subdivision are quite
conspicuous by reason of the high
red bluff that faces seaward.
From two blocks east of the
Hight home on Long Beach a
road will extend across the Davis
Creek marsh with a bridge across
the creek. This bridge will be
of a temporary nature as it is
still planned to dredge Davis
Creek at some future date.
When that time comes the
bridge will be removed, the cut
made by the dredge and a more
permanent bridge erected behind
the dredge .Such action as a tem
porary removal of the bridge will
hardly effect property owners in
the new subdivision. Plans are
to also have another road to the
property. This road to lead
straight down from the Long
' Beach highway at the curve just |
entering the present developed
| area.
In addition to the development
Continued On Page Two
Final Report In
March Of Dimes
Nears Record
Mrs. M. H, Rourk, Bruns
wick County Chairman,
Reports Collections Total
ing $2,785.29 This Year
GOOD RESPONSE FROM
ALL PARTS OF COUNTY
Chairman Expresses Appre
ciation For Cooperation
Which Made Possible
This Successful Drive
This Year
Mrs. M. H. Rourk of Shallotte,
county campaign chairman for
the March-of-Dimes, has turned
in her final report to chapter of
ficials, showing a grand total of
$2,785.29 raised in the drive which
is just over. All sections of the
county responded to the appeal
for funds.
Popular interest in the work of
the National Foundation for In
fantile Paralysis was heightened
this spring by the announcement
of the effectiveness of the Salk
'accine which was made possible
hrough research financed with
unds from the March-of-Dimes.
rhe people of Brunswick, having
suffered in the past from the ef
'ects of polio upon some of its
;itizens, is glad to have had a
:>art in the discovery of the vac
:ine which will reduce the num
Der of cases, if not prevent them
sntirely.
“I appreciate the willingness
.vith which the people of Bruns
wick County responded to this
numanitarian appeal,” said Mrs.
Rourk in making her final re
port. “My local chairmen have
been most cooperative and I want
them to have the credit which is
due them.”
Mrs. Rourk’s report shows the
chairman in each locality and the
amount raised in all parts of the
county as follows:
Shallotte, H. H. Bellamy,
$843.71 Bolivia, Mrs. Foster
Mintz, $163.15; Southport, Mrs.
Norman Hornstein, $544.53; Ice
land, Mrs. Rufus Williams,
Continued On Page Four f
Mrs. Sanders In
Charge Of Drive
County-Wide Appeal Being
Made For Donations To
American Cancer Society
Mrs. H. T. Sanders is chair
man of the campaign to raise
funds for the American Cancer
Society in Brunswick county this
year. She announces that the
quota is $500.00.
In order to be able to carry
this program into every section
of the county, Mrs. Sanders has
asked the following to serve as
chairmen in their respective com
munities:
Mrs. J. R. Simmons, Ash; Mrs.
N. W. Walton, Grissettown-Long
wood-Hickman’s Crossroads, Mrs.
R. H. Rolden, with Mrs. Floyd
Kirby, Jr., co-chairmen, Shallotte;
Mrs. J. D. Sellers, with Mrs. Wal
ter Sellers co-chairman, Supply;
Mrs. Royal Danford, Bolivia;
Mrs. F. M. Burdett, Southport;
Mrs. Bige Bowling, Mill Creek;
Mrs. R. L. Sullivan, Winnabow;
Mrs. Rufus Williams, Leland.
Ministers of the county have
been urged to set aside Mother’s
Day for a special appeal for
loyalty to this organized fight
against the greatest killer in
America.
Fide Table
Following is the tide table
for Southport during the next
week. These hours are ap
proximately correct and were
furnished The State Port Pilot
through the courtesy of the
Cape Fear Pilot’s Association.
High Tide Low Tide
Thursday, May 5
6:46 A. M. 0:46 A. M.
7:48 P. M. 12:51 P. M.
Friday, May 6
7:26 A. M.
7:57 P. M.
1:29 A. M.
1:29 P. M.
Saturday, May 7
8:04 A. M.
8:33 P. M.
2:09 A. M.
2:06 P. M.
Sunday, May 8
8:41 A. M.
9:09 P. M.
2:48 A. M.
2:43 P. M.
Monday, May 9
9:17 A. M.
9:45 P. M.
3:26 A. M.
3:19 P. M.
Tuesday, May JO
9:53 A. M.
10:20 P. M.
4:06 A. M.
3:56 P. M.
Wednesday, May 11
10:31 A. M.
10:57; P. M.
4:45 P. M.
4:35 P. M